Ringtones on E815 easy!

Ok, I was bored. I took my bill in to pay it at Alltel's main store in
Charleston, this morning. On the way out, I got thinking about what lots
of the Verizon posters had said about the Moto E815 being a good phone, so
I stopped and looked at one on display. (Alltel's not stupid to stop
selling one of the best sellers, like some "other" carriers.)

Noticing the plug in the back and the pullup FULL SIZED 800 Mhz antenna
like my old Flip phones had, I went back to the service desk and asked if
they had the antenna cable that fit it ($10). They did, in stock. So, I
bought the phone $79 and the cable on a 2-yr contract, of sorts, and headed
out to Circuit City for a memory card. 512K was the biggest Transflash on
the shelf and it was overpriced, but I wanted to play. Plug it in and it
was ready. I took some pictures of the Verizon Kiosk guys all waving at a
cameraphone they wish they still sold on the new card. The LED flash on
the camera went off, to my surprise. I wondered when I first saw it what
that little white slot was near the lens...(c; I can plug the TNC antenna
cable into my cellantenna.com DA4000 3W power amp out in the boonies, but
no AMPS any more (snif)....

Unable to find anything about loading MP3 files into the phone for
ringtones, except for the Verizon hacking nonsense the net is rampant with,
I loaded some "jingles" and crazy sound effects I play on DJ jobs onto the
tiny Sandisk card in its SD adapter. The phone had put quite a file
structure on the card upon initial plugin. I loaded my MP3 files, some
over a megabyte, which doesn't seem to matter, into:
motorola/browser/usr/ringtones directory in the phone's tree it made. It
also found some other MP3 files I had put in the root directory, so I don't
think it matters where you store the files on the transflash card.
Filename LENGTH, on the other hand, IS very important, so I compressed the
filenames to under 16 characters with no spaces dot MP3 before dismounting
the card from the computer.

I looked for the sounds, after changing the source to the external
transflash and they were all there, but there wasn't any "Apply As
Ringtone" on the menu I'd seen under SOUNDS-MENU when the phone was looking
inside itself. So, I figured I'd MOVE these files off to the phone's
internal memory. I had emptied it of the kiddie krap it came with. (Why
does Motorola think we like rap?)

I switched the memory source to internal and looked at SOUNDS-MENU and
there was the "Apply As Ringtone" selection restored. It won't read a
sound off the removable card for a ringtone, which makes sense.

I picked a VERY LOUD...(c;)...single church bell, a real monster bell, the
swinging kind the cathedral uses to call-to-worship/wake up the
neighborhood and clicked "Apply As Ringtone", then used my Netgear Skype
phone to call it.

WOW! THAT IS LOUD! All the Christians in the restaurant oughta be on
their knees, praying, probably praying for it to STOP, if I fumble opening
it...hee hee.

I changed the ringtone for voicemail notification to a cool flushing toilet
sound that goes on and on...a double flusher with a big gurgle at the
end!...(c;

Messaging might be a little embarrassing, though, what with its ringtone
being a 20-year-old having an AMAZING orgasm I ripped, and converted to MP3
on-the-fly, with Total Recorder (www.totalrecorder.com) off a porn video on
the hard drive. She sounds like someone is strangling her...(c; All in
good fun...hee hee.

Who needs to buy ringtones when it's so easy to make your own....and FUN!
Changing them out is so easy....

I think I'm gonna sign up for Axcess TV (25 channels) on it, next. It's
$10/mo....BUT, the catch is it uses airtime. You have to add ANOTHER
$10/month to buy unlimited data downloads so you can watch it for long
periods without eating all your airtime, same for XM and other radio
streamers. We'll see how that works, tomorrow. Having The Weather Channel
and Fox/CNN/NBC news would be very nice during breakfast at the
diner.....unless someone messages me and she has that screaming orgasm and
I get kicked out...hee hee.

"Mommy, why does she keep begging him to do it harder, when it sounds like
she'd gonna die?"

"SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR BREAKFAST. Ask your father, later."

Larry
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Pretty neat phone for a toyphone. Fits a manly hand better than the
smaller ones, too.

Thanks, Alltel!